What you don't want in your kitchen!!

[Geo]

This tiny beastie flew out of our cutlery drawer, I caught it and looked it up out of curiosity thinking it might be some sort of clothes moth or carpet moth.

The nearest I can find is the Indian meal moth otherwise known as a Pantry moth or Flour moth which can be a real pest in the kitchen.

It's about 8mm long.

Any insect experts out there?

Took the pic using a new (to me) Durst copy stand keeping the beastie contained in a glass petrie dish! OM-1 Mk 2 plus 90mm macro.

[antpitta]

Obsidentify reckons (100% certain!) it's a Light Brown Apple Moth

From the UK moths website:

" Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana

(Walker, 1863)

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Wingspan 16-25 mm.

This originally Australian species was probably accidentally introduced into Cornwall in the 1930's and since then has spread quickly northwards, and is now regular in many parts, and very common in some areas.

A pest species in Australian orchards, it is one of the most catholic polyphages in Britain, and should be considered as a possibility when identifying larvae off any plant.

It flies in two generations between May and October."

[BDennis]

Ah I found the same, crossed posts!

[Geo]

That's a relief!! Not sure how it got into the cutlery drawer!! Well travelled though, from AU to Cornwall then to Edinburgh, where next??

[MJ224]

Agreed. My Seek app does anyway......

[BDennis]

I did Google image search and it turned up this Apple Moth species

https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/light-brown-apple-moth

Never heard of them but it says a pest of Australian orchards. This site says it was accidentally introduced in Cornwall in the 1930s

https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/epiphyas-postvittana/

We've never had one in the cutlery drawer!

Bill

[ronidog]

These are frequent visitors to my moth light trap